Last August, I had the distinct pleasure of being a groomsman in a very old friend of mine’s wedding. Being an avid photographer, I couldn’t let a chance like this pass me up, so I brought my camera bag along with me. Since I was in the wedding, I wasn’t able to photograph much during the actual ceremony, and left most of the posed pictures of family members to the paid photographers. I posted 20 of my favorite pictures from the day, most of which were candid shots taken at the reception.
For equipment, I had my trusty old Canon Rebel XT, and used only my Canon 50mm 1.8 and 70-200 f/4 L IS lenses. I had an old Minolta flash, but while it was incredibly bright, it offered nothing in the way of metering, so most of the pictures taken using the flash were exposed manually using trial and error. These would not be my preferred pieces of equipment for wedding photography, but at the time I was just starting out with digital photography, and didn’t have much in my own personal collection to choose from. Nevertheless, the only major problems I came across were AF hunting in the low light due to not having an adequate AF assist beam, and the aforementioned metering.
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